Good MorningEquities rebounded last week and looks like they might keep moving higher. The move was aided by expansionary economic data and earnings but there are still risks for the market. The NFP report was surprisingly strong and coupled with robust wage increases that should give additional impetus to the FOMC. The chatter now is to expect a 50 basis point rate hike in March and even more aggressive rate hikes later in the year.
This week will be all about the CPI data. The earnings season is still underway but there will be few surprises now, with more than 50% of the S&P 500 having already reported. The CPI is expected to expand but at a slower rate than the previous month but there is risk the YOY figures could be hot and provide even more reason for the Fed to hike rates. In that scenario, an overly aggressive Fed could cause the economy to stall. Featured: Trump Just Gave the Green Light to Rewrite Social Security? (Ad) 
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If you're concerned about inflation, you've got a good reason. Inflation has hit its highest level since 1982 to an increase in the level of prices of the goods and services that households buy.
What do you do when commodity prices are surging? High inflation can be the result of a hot economy or... Read the Full Story |
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Check Out These Sectors for Strong Stocks
With the equities off to a shaky start to the year, it’s more important than ever for investors to focus on the strongest areas of the market for buying opportunities. There are still plenty of intriguing companies to consider adding to your investm... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | Fears are rising about what would happen to Europe’s energy supply if Russia were to invade Ukraine and then shut off natural gas exports in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions.
The tensions show the risk of Europe’s reliance on Russia for energy, which supplies about a third ... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | For all the potential peril of a workplace romance, the most common source of trouble, experts say, is allowing it to remain a secret.
A case in point was this week’s abrupt ouster of longtime CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker, who said he was ‘’wrong’’ in not being upfront with the net... Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | GlobalWafers Co., which supplies silicon wafers to semiconductor manufacturers, says it will invest $3.6 billion in facilities in Asia, the United States and Europe after its attempt to acquire Germany’s Siltronic AG failed Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Spotify's popular U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan apologized Saturday after a video compilation surfaced that showed him using a racial slur in clips of episodes over a 12-year span.
The mea culpa came after Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter India.Arie posted the compilation on Instagr... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Northeast residents were urged to stay off the roads with temperatures beginning to drop Friday evening as a major winter storm turned already slippery roads and sidewalks into ice-covered hazards.
The storm spread misery from the Deep South, where tree limbs snapped and a tornado cla... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Diversified global medical science products maker Abbott (NYSE: ABT) stock has sold off with the benchmark indexes in a throw the baby out with the bathwater type reaction. The medical products behemoth saw strength across nearly all of its divisions while delivering nearly 300 million COVID-19 test... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Robotic surgery systems solutions provider Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: IRSG) stock is down (-18%) for the year outpacing the benchmark indexes. The maker of the da Vinci robotic surgery system is continuing to improves its Gen 4 robotic architecture and continues to grow sales at over 16% annually. ... Read the Full Story |
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PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is well known as a popular technology platform for buyers and sellers. Lately, however, it has been associated exclusively with sellers—as in sellers of the company’s stock.
In the aftermath of a disappointing fourth-quarter update, PayPal shares have dropped to ... Read the Full Story |
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Monday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition products for copper interconnect transition that offers copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatments; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products. It also provides SPEED gapfill high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition products; and Striker single-wafer atomic layer deposition products for dielectric film solutions. In addition, the company offers Flex for dielectric etch applications; Kiyo for conductor etch applications; Syndion for through-silicon via etch applications; and Versys metal products for metal etch processes. Further, it provides Coronus bevel clean products to enhance die yield; Da Vinci, DV-Prime, EOS, and SP series products to address various wafer cleaning applications; and Metryx mass metrology systems for high precision in-line mass measurement in semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The company sells its products and services to semiconductors industry in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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